News - The new Megaupload and Megabox music service

[HEXUS]

Relaunch of file sharing website and a new music site are due soon.

Read more.

[Loxick]

I hope this becomes a game changer in the music industry.

[Noxvayl]

It is good to see the artists getting a favourable share of the income generated. I hope this enables more artists to earn a living who are unable to do so currently.

[synaesthesia]

I for one hope it fails massively and that Kim DotMoron gets put away, cheating criminal scum. (not taking into consideration anything they're trying to do him for currently before anyone jumps on "bandwagon" cries)

[McEwin]

"cheating criminal scum" - isn't that the music producers?

[Blademrk]

From what I read around this morning, it appears to be a music service with an interesting twist on monetizing free downloads: a program that sort of works like an ad-blocker only instead of blocking ads it replaces 15% of the ads you would normally get when viewing websites on the internet (I can imaging the outrage from websites having their carefully screened ads replace with any old dross, from which they won't get any money from at all).

So free music downloads in exchange for your privacy and at a 15% cost of ad space to websites.

Although, there'll also be a paid for version which doesn't interfere with ads.

edit: source Link

[KrisWragg]

I'm still waiting patiently for a server that offers real music lovers a GOOD service! I want to be able to purchase music in a LOSSLESS format such as FLAC and be able to access lossless versions of it from the cloud / stream. Something like spotify but with lossless quality and perhaps fixing lots of the issues with duplication of songs and songs with beginning/ends missing.

I find it really disheartening that as time goes by that music quality drops more and more, not referring to the fact that songs aren't good anymore, just that there is more emphasis on the iPod generation of quick to market music with poor mixing and heavily EQ'd mixes that are bass heavy and tinny and sound terrible on a a real hi-fi system.

[miniyazz]

From what I read around this morning, it appears to be a music service with an interesting twist on monetizing free downloads: a program that sort of works like an ad-blocker only instead of blocking ads it replaces 15% of the ads you would normally get when viewing websites on the internet (I can imaging the outrage from websites having their carefully screened ads replace with any old dross, from which they won't get any money from at all).

So free music downloads in exchange for your privacy and at a 15% cost of ad space to websites.

Although, there'll also be a paid for version which doesn't interfere with ads.

edit: source Link

Suitable for a virtual machine then

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm still waiting patiently for a server that offers real music lovers a GOOD service! I want to be able to purchase music in a LOSSLESS format such as FLAC and be able to access lossless versions of it from the cloud / stream. Something like spotify but with lossless quality and perhaps fixing lots of the issues with duplication of songs and songs with beginning/ends missing.

I find it really disheartening that as time goes by that music quality drops more and more, not referring to the fact that songs aren't good anymore, just that there is more emphasis on the iPod generation of quick to market music with poor mixing and heavily EQ'd mixes that are bass heavy and tinny and sound terrible on a a real hi-fi system.

Qobuz Studio Masters - HD alternative to iTunes??

[KrisWragg]

Qobuz Studio Masters - HD alternative to iTunes??

That'd be great if the music selection was better, don't really cover the sort of music I listen to though.

[YenRug]

As far as I am aware, the US has no grounds to extradite Kim Dotcom; legally, the US had to pursue Megaupload as a company, but US laws do not allow them to apply breaches of the law against non-US companies. What does this mean? Technically, everything that's been done against Megaupload including the takedown and seizure of hardware, was an illegal request to the New Zealand government. Whoops.

[baius]

Spotify has already been mentioned, but in a different context to what I'm about to say.

What I'm about to say is: how does this differ from, or improve on, Spotify?

Spotify appears to do the same thing, and was first to market.

What am I missing about their business model?